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...carried Friday’s pageant on the strength of her violin concerto, a platform advocating music education in public schools, floral pattern evening gown and blue one-piece bathing suit...
Lawsuits filed in Colorado and Oklahoma by telemarketing firms are challenging the FTC's jurisdiction in maintaining a do-not-call registry. But telemarketers might not find much luck in court. In 1986, before the days of antitelemarketing laws and TeleZappers, Bulmash of Private Citizen won a suit he filed against a persistent telemarketer, which was forced to pay court fees and the 97¢ it would cost Bulmash to have his number unlisted for a month. "The judge pointed at the defendant," Bulmash recalls, "and said, 'I was called twice last night during the football game by guys like...
Twelve years ago, during the first Gulf War, Marine pilot Clifford Acree was tortured by Saddam Hussein's henchmen for 47 days. He was subjected to mock executions and systematically starved until he began eating the scabs off his own body. Along with 16 other POWs, Acree filed suit to claim compensation from Iraq's $1.7 billion in frozen assets. But they may never see the money. On March 20, President Bush confiscated Iraq's assets "to assist the Iraqi people and for the reconstruction of Iraq." Bush's order made an exception for cases in which the courts...
Saturday and Sunday’s early racing in wet, windy conditions seemed to suit Harvard just fine, and the team finished the round robin a perfect 11-0. Sunday afternoon’s final four double round robin featured four teams—Tufts, Harvard, Dartmouth and Boston College. The Crimson went 4-2 on the afternoon, a record which ultimately cost Harvard the win over the 5-1 Jumbos...
Three days after the story of Harvard’s solidarity with the doomed lacrosse programs ran, a member of the Board of Trustees at Rutgers called Kleinfelder to discuss the article. Rutgers reversed its decisions and reinstated its program that year. UMass followed suit a year later...